Refrigerator-car.



M. P. REYNOLDS.

REFRIGERATOR CAR. APPLICATION FILED AUG-24, 1914.

1,153,705; v Patented Sept. 14, 1915.

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P. REYNOLDS. REFRIGERATOR CAR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.24, I914.

PatvntcdSept. 14, 1915.

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M. P. REYNOLDS.

REFRIGERATOR CAR.

APPLICATION man AUG.24, 1914. I l 1.53 7G5 PatentedSept. 1-1, 1910.

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ii 5 PATENT FFTE MORLEY PUNSHON REYNOLDS, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR T0 W. S. TYLER COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

REFRIGERATOR-GAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented fiept. 1141, 1915.

Application filed august 24,1914. Serial No. 858,208.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MoRLnY PUNSHON REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerator-Cars; and I do hereby declare the following to be full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to ice chambers or bunkers for use with refrigerator cars and particularly to bunkers which can be folded when not in use in'order to permit the en tire space in the car to be utilized.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple and eflicient form of ice bunker which can be quickly and conveniently installed in refrigerator. cars and which, when not being used for containing ice, can be readily folded in order that the space ordinarily occupied by the same when in use can be utilized for other packing goods.

My invention consists, generally stated, in the novel arrangement, construction and combination of parts as hereinafter more specifically set forth and described and particularly pointed out in the claims' To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to construct, use and manipulate my improved ice bunker I will describe the same more fully, referring to the accompanying drawings, in which a Figure 1 is a front view of my improved bunker in position in an ordinary car, with car in section, with the left hand side showing the: same with the bulkhead removed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of one end of the car showing the bunker in position for use. Fig. 3 is a similar view with the bunker collapsed. Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional plan views taken, on the lines 44a-nd 5-5, respectively on Fig. 1.

-Like symbols of reference herein indicate like parts in each of the figures of the dra 1v- IIIO'S.

is illustrated in the drawings, my improved ice bunker 1 is installed in the ends of the carA, which is provided with the fiooru. the roof 7), end wall 0, and side walls (Z. The bunker 1 extends across the end of the car A and is formed of the ice chamber 2 having the movable partition or bulk:-

head 3 in part of the same. The ice chamber. 3 is inclosed by the stationary air space 4 on the end wall C of the car A which is formed by the frame 5 covered by the woven wire fabric 5, and by the movable air spaces 6 which arecformed along each of the side walls-d by the frames 7 and covered bv the woven Wire fabric 8. The movable bulkhead 3 and air spaces 4: and 6 form the walls of the chamber 2 and such bulkhead is a-dapted to rest upon the floor a of the car A. while above the bulkhead and connected to the car roof I) is the stationary bulk-head portion 9 having the woven wire fabric 10 on'the inner and outer faces of the same. The bulkhead 3 has the frame 3' and lower portion of such bulk-head has its outer face formed of the woven wire fabric 11. Above such fabric 11 on the bulk-head 3 is the wooden outer face or lining 12, and in the rear of said lining is the inner face 13 of woven wire fabric. A lever 14 is pivoted in front of and centrally of the lower portion of the bulkhead 3, as at 14', and its lower end 14 is adapted to engage with the floor a of'th'e car when such lever is raised in order to raise such. bulk-head as hereinafter described.

'lVithin the ice chamber 2 are the ice bars 15 for holding the ice when placed in such chamber, and such bars are supported at their front or outer ends by the angle bar 16 on the bulk-head 3. The ice bars 15 are connected together in any suitable manner so as to form spaces 15 between the same for the passage of "water from the ice in the chamber as melted to the drip pan 17 seated below said bars and in the car floor a, and such bars are arranged in sections across the ice chamber 3, so as to be sus tained by the ice stands 18, one of which supports each of said sections at the rear end of the same adjacent to the car end wall a and rests at the lower end upon the said pan. The ice stands 18 have a flange portion 18 extending up from the bar supporting portion 18" thereon for fitting against the rear of the intermediate bars 15, while pivotally connected at 16 to the sides ofsaid stands and to the ends 16' on the outer or side bars 15", which project beyond the intermediate bars are the bracerods 16*. The ice stands 18 rest within the drip pan l7 and are loosely and vertically supported at their lower ends in the brackets l8 secured on the car end .wall 0.

The movable side walls 6 of theice chamher 2 rest at their lower ends upon the side ice bars 15" and their upper ends are hinged to the side walls (1 of the car A by means of the hinges 8' on top of said walls which have the slide plates 7 connected to the same and forming part of said hinges.

These plates 7 extend down from the hinges- 8 along the side walls (2 of the car A and slide in their guides 8" securedto said side wall.

Within the bulk-head 3 is the door opening 19 which has a door (not shown) hinged and, adapted to be locked therein in any suitable manner and extending up from said door and within such bulk-head is the locking bar or rod 20, which passes through the top of said bulk-head and through the frame 9 of the stationary bulk-head 9. A lever 21 is pivoted at 21 to the end of an angle portion 20 on the bar or rod 20 which extends through an opening 21 in the bulk-head frame 3' and within a slot 20" in the frame 19' of said door opening where said bar is adapted to be seated by such portion to hold said rod in its raised or locking position, as hereinafter described.

Extending horizontally through the ice chamber 3 is the movable center brace 22 which has an eye-23 projecting out from the front end of the same for fitting over the-upper end of the hinge pin 23" in air! opening'or seat 22' in the bulk-head 9,"and such brace extends through the end wall 4 of t e ice chamber 3 and is held in position by t e locking device or catch 24 on the car end wall 0.

Within openings d in each of the side walls 03 of the car A are the tracks 25 which extend along the ice chamber 3, and such tracks are provided with the depressions 25' at the front and rear ends of the same, with the raised portions 25" between the same. These tracks 25 are at the upper and lower ends of the bulk-head 3 and rollers or wheels 26' mounted on said bulk-head are adapted to travel on said tracks, while at the ends of said tracks and beyond the depressions 25 are the upwardly projecting portions 25 to assist in holding the'rollers 25 on the tracks when the bulk-head is in either its folded or opened position.

The operation of my improved bunker 1 is as follows :--When the parts are assembled in'position to form the ice chamber 3 as shown in Fig. 1, and it is desired to fold up or collapse the same, the door in the opening 19 is opened and the operator enters the ice chamber 2, and any ice remaining in said chamber can be cleaned out of the same .through said door. The lever 21 is pulled angle portion 20 on the bar 20 to drop down tothe bottom of the opening 21" in said frame, which will drop the said bar down within the movable bulk-head 3 and free its upper end from its opening or seat in the frame 9 of the bulk-head 9, and this operation can be accomplished any time after the door is opened in order to move the bulkhead 3, as hereinafter described. The center brace 22 is now unlatched or unlocked at itsrear end by the catch 24 and is swung forwardat'its front end by the engagement of the eye 23 with the pivot pin 23, so that such brace can then be seated or confined in the opening 22 in the bulk-head 9, and the operator then lifts or raises each of the movable sides 6, so that their lower ends are freed from the ice bars 15, by means of the slides 7 on said sides moving in the guides 8" on the car sidewalls d, and then such sides are swung to the car roof I) on their hinges 8 on the ends of said slides. With the sides 6 thus in position under the car roof I), the operator can then swing out the center brace 22 on its pivot-pinl23 from within its seat 22 in the bulk-head 9 to its position formerly occupied in the ice chamber 2, so that it will be under said sides and then it can be held at its rear end by the catch 2 1, which will thus hold said sides under said roof. The ice bars 15' are'then raised in each of their sections, to an angle sufiicient to allow the back brace rods 19 pivotally connected to the end bars 15 and to the ice stands 18, to swing forward, which will cause such stands to go back against the end a. of the car A and away from engagement with the ice bars to thereby free such bars from said stands and thus allow the said bars todrop down into the ice pan 17- -rollers 26 on the same will travel in the tracks 25 and from within the front depressions 25 therein onto the raised portions 25 in said tracks. Upon the further pushing back of the'bulk-head 3 along the tracks 25, the rollers 26 on said bulk-head will drop into the depressions 25 at the rear of said tracks, thereby lowering said bulkhead and sustaining the same at the rear of the car A and adjacent to the end wall 0 of said car. To again form the ice chamber 2 the movable bulk-head 3 is lifted so that its rollers 26 are moved out of the rear depressions 25 in the tracks 25 by again raising the lever 14, so that it engages the floor a of the car A, and upon then drawing such bulk-head forward while so raised it will travel along said tracks to. its forward or open position with its rollers 26 in the front depressions 25 in said tracks where such. bulkhead can be held by raising the locking into the bulk-head 9, so that the side walls 6 can then be lowered on their hinges 8, along the sides 03 of the car A, to allow-their lower ends to rest upon the outer ice bars after which said brace is swung from the said bulk-head under. the roof I) of. the car and locked at its rear end. The door in the opening 19 in the bulk-head 3 can now be .closed and locked and the ice chamber 2 so formed is ready for the ice to be placed therein and on to the bars 15 and 15, so that it will be obvious when the bunker 1 is in use, the solid face on the bulk-head 3 will allow the circulation of the air into the car body by the icedair passing from the ice chamber down through said bars and out through the screen 11 at the bottom of said bulk-head and back into said chamber through the screens 10 on the stationarv bulk-head v Various modifications and changes in the design, construction and operation of my improved bunker may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of'its advantages.

It will thus be seen that in theme of my improved bunker, the .proper circulation of the iced or cooled air will be had into the body of the car from the bunkerand from the body into the bunker.

My improved .bunker can be easily and quickly assembled in position or collapsed at the ends. of the car by easy and convenient operations, and when folded or collapsed it will occupy'little or no space in the car end and will not be in the way of using the space in the car occupied by the bunker when in its open position. The bunker can be easily and quickly handled by an unskilled'person for setting into posi-. tion or folding, and will not be liable to. get out of working order at anytime or from any cause.

What I claim as my invention and. desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition, an ice grate formed of a series 'of bars and supported at its front end on said partition, and movable means at the rear of said bars for supporting the same in a horizontal position and for permits ting the same to drop down to a horizontal position at the bottom of the car.

2. A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition, an ice grate formed of a series of bars and supported at its front 7 end on said partition, and movable stands at the rear of said bars forsupporting the down to a horizontal position at the bottom of said car.

4. Arefrigerator car having a movable transverse partition, an ice grate formed of a series of bars and supported at its front end on said partition, movable stands at the rear of said bars for supporting the same in a horizontal position, and brace rods for supporting the same in a horizontal position, and brace rods pivotally connected to said bars and standsfor permitting said bars to be raised and be dropped down to a horizontal position at the bottom of the car.-

5.- A refrigerator car having a movable transverse artition, an ice grate composed of a plurahty of independent sections, each .formed of a series of bars and supported at its front end on said partition, movable stands at the rear of each of said sectionsfor supporting the same in a horizontal position,

and brace rods pivotally connected to said bars and stands for permitting said sections to be raised and bevdropped down to a horizontal position at the bottom of the car.

7. A refrigerator car having an ice bunker formed with a front wall having a fixed portion and -a removable portion, and movable members-for forming'the side walls of said bunker and adapted to be raised and supported under the car roof from the fixed portion of said wall.

8. A refrigerator car having'an ice bunker formed with a front wall having a fixed portion and a removable portion, and members forming the side walls of said bunker and hinged at their upper ends for being adapted to be raised and supported under the car roof from the fixed portion of said wall. 1

9. A refrigerator car having an ice bunker formed with a front wallhavlng a fixed portion and a removable portion, an ice grate formed from a series of bars in the bottom of said bunker, and members forming the side walls of said bunker and hinged at their upper, ends. said members being adapt- "ed to be, raised from said ice bars and swung on said hin es for being supported under the car roof rom the fixed portion of said wall.

1(). .A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition for forming the front wall of an ice bunker, an ice grate formed of v a series of bars in the bottom of said bunker,

members forming the side walls of said bunker and hinged at their upper ends for being adapted to be swung and supported 1 adapted to be raised under the car roof, and a under the car roof, and sliding means connected to said members for permitting the same to be raised from said ice bars.

11. A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition for forming the front a brace pivotally mounted underthe car roof forfsupporting said members under said roo 13. A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition for forming the front wall of an ice bunker, movable members for forming the side walls of said bunker and adapted to be raised under the car roof, a

stationarybulk-head 'above said movable partition, and extending down from said roof, and a brace pivotally mounted on said bulkhead for supporting said members un-- der said roof.

14. A refrigerator car having a movable transverse artition for forming the front wall of an we bunker, movable members for forming the side walls of said ice bunker and. adapted to be raised under the car roof, a stationary bulk-head above said movable partition and extending down from said roof, said bulk-head having a space within the same, and a brace pivotally mounted on said bulk-head for sup orting said members under said roof and a apted to be seated in said space to raise saidmembers. 15.A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition for forming the front wall of an we bunker, movable members for formin the side walls of said bunker and adapte to be raised under the car roof, means for supporting said members under said roof, and means for locking said means in its supporting position.

16. A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition'forforming the front wall of an ice bunker, movable members for forming the side walls of said bunker and adapted to be raised under the car roof, a brace pivotally mounted under the car roof for supporting said members under said roof, and means for. locking said brace in its supporting position. 1 A refrigerator car having a movable transverse partition for forming the front wall of an ice bunker, movable members for a stationary bulk-head above said movable partition and extending down from said roof, said bulk-head having a space within the same, a brace pivotally mounted on said bulk-head for supporting said members un-.

der said roof and adapt/ed to be seated in' said space to raise said members and means for locking said brace in its supporting position.

19. A refrigerator car having a collapsible ice chamber provided with movable Walls for forming the same, and a movable bottom for said chamber normally disposed above the floor level of the car and adapted to be lowered to the floor of the car when collapsed.

20. .A refrigerator car having an ice chain her, an ice supporting bottom for said cham-- ber removably supported at its front end, and movable means at the rear of said bot- Y tomfor supporting the same in horizontal position above the bottom of the car and permitting the same to dropto a horizontalposition at the bottom of the car.

. 21. A refrigerator car havin an ice chamber, an ice su porting bottom or said chamber removab y su ported at its front'end,

and movable stan s at the rear of said bottom for supporting the same in horizontal position above the bottom of the car and permitting the same to drop down to a horizontal position at the bottom of the car.

In testimony whereof, I, the said MORLEY Pmzisuon Rnrnonns, have hereunto set my han 5' MORLEY PUNSHON REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

E. P. DISBRO, Salim PAUL. v 

